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by arebop 10y ago
It's not absurd, you shouldn't be offended, and only you can decide if you want to invest 8 hours proving your fitness to this company.
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by arebop 10y ago
I don't have a citation ready for SF; my recollection from the last anti-airbnb ballot campaign that a leading opponent of airbnb (Campos) claimed a figure between 1999 and 3000 units listed on airbnb. http://www.sfchronicle
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by arebop 10y ago
When I try to take a really broad view of it, I reason that people demand a place to sleep every night and so there's really no reason to think that airbnb and long-term housing are natural enemies. There's a limit to demand for b
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by arebop 10y ago
Blender's Video Sequence Editor just has a couple of quirks to get past. It is not deeply mysterious. Like: the VSE viewer and the Image viewer are similar but distinct; that can be confusing. And OpenGL acceleration on a Scene strip s
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by arebop 10y ago
No, I'm definitely thinking of the several Fortune 100 companies I worked for in the past. They did indeed include TCO in their checklists. They did not actually understand or care about the daily experience of the people using the com
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by arebop 10y ago
If they want enterprise market share, they need to lower prices by a lot.
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by arebop 10y ago
OK, but this article is talking about significantly higher hotel prices ("big boost in the arm"), while any estimate of the fraction of housing units allocated to airbnb implies insignificantly lower housing prices, so your desire
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by arebop 10y ago
1/3 of San Francisco apartments are effectively under indefinite lease.
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by arebop 10y ago
You should't assume that airbnb conversions would turn over 20x as frequently as the existing apartments. So it wouldn't 50k vs. 55k, but 50000 vs. 50250. Sure, there might be a big spike in supply on airbnb-banishment-day, but th
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by arebop 10y ago
Isn't it more like 995k apartments for rent, and 5k hotels? The difference between 10% and 0.5% matters when you're arguing that AirBnB significantly reduces the supply of housing in NYC.
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by arebop 10y ago
I heard that Obamacare outlawed discrimination based on preexisting conditions. What country are you in/what insurance difficulties are you having related to pre-existing conditions?
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by arebop 10y ago
> How does receiving the assets of your parents after their death affect social mobility The article doesn't only address inheriting your parents' assets. It is also about people who inherit directly from grandparents and great
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by arebop 10y ago
Are people really being gentrified onto the streets? You really think high-functioning people are becoming homeless for want of $3000/month income to pay rent? I doubt this very much; if I became unable to pay rent in the most expens
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by arebop 10y ago
As somebody who started in software at a non-tech company, my first reaction to this was horror. On second thought, it seems like fine advice as long as your first job at the advertising firm is as a brand manager, or at a manufacturing fir
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by arebop 10y ago
The same person is responsible every week. Take it up with the landlord. Before I was in an apartment, I owned a condo, and the bylaws prohibited short term rentals and even most long term rentals. No new laws are needed to deal with these
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by arebop 10y ago
My neighbor was pretty noisy when he first moved in. I had to ask him several times to quiet down and eventually after the landlady heard complaints from several others, he did. This isn't at all an AirBnB-specific issue. I admit 5% is
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by arebop 10y ago
There are 50912 housing units in Santa Monica, 36657 of which are rental units [ https://www.smgov.net/Departments/HED/eddContent.aspx?id=235... ]. So 1700 is (generously) 4.6%. Not nothing, but how much really? It&
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by arebop 10y ago
I've heard there are concerns about disturbing the soil because it can trigger responsibility for dealing with the pollutants left by early valley hardware companies such as https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r
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by arebop 10y ago
I have rent control, so no worries except these golden handcuffs. People I know who have young families bought their houses a long time ago or have so much money from when their startups IPOd or got acquired that the high housing cost is st
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by arebop 10y ago
a teacher's rebuttal on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4p0uc3/why_di...
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by arebop 10y ago
I've been given an actual IQ test during an interview process in the U.S.
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by arebop 10y ago
I live in San Francisco, and I think these delivery services are great for all the things I do not enjoy buying: soap, paper towels, socks, bicycle pump. Having those things delivered gives me more time to peruse the cheese shop, the farmer
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by arebop 10y ago
Let's say 30 minutes [ https://goo.gl/maps/SjMUzazkmUy ]. Is that "much further" than 15 minutes?
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by arebop 10y ago
works on Firefox and Safari as well as Chrome. There's a difference between the old-school Microsoft efforts to break competitors and current efforts to support a (popular) subset of browsers.
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by arebop 10y ago
Unemployment benefits in California* last for 26 weeks, but the maximum benefit is $450/week, enough to cover about half the rent payment on a studio apartment in the Bay Area. Prudent workers save on their own for the possibility of u
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by arebop 10y ago
Surely they can regulate use of land. What good is your helicopter without a helipad?
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by arebop 10y ago
It seems you are an unusual case [ http://www.pewresearch.org/2009/02/19/oneinfive-homeowners-f... ].
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by arebop 10y ago
I think it's a question of local optimization. New housing units increase supply and lower the clearing price. Once people move in, new amenities such as more and better cultural institutions, restaurants, hobbyist clubs, retail establ
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by arebop 10y ago
You think it would be better if it were a dendritic system? It's hard to believe that e.g., randomly walling off half of those grid links would make traffic better.
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by arebop 10y ago
Does it really matter if a billionaire stacks up billions in some Cayman account? If so, it is straightforward to use inflation to redistribute those digits. What I care about is a billionaire who buys up all the land in my country. The lan

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